In the last edition of Kalo Mina in 2023 Urs Eberle presents new works on paper from the series 'Cut-out' which he completed in Athens.

 

In his works Urs Eberle refers to fragments of voyages, which he assembles from memories. They are means of orientation, guiding tools and mnemonic devices: tags through time and space in urban places.

City streets mostly run in a linear–vertical and horizontal–pattern outlining buildings and creating square areas. The grid they form creates a space for exploration which Urs Eberle records in his works on paper and objects. In that sense they rather have to be regarded as emotional road maps where gaps and omissions can be filled and revived by the spectator.

 

The new work 'It Is Not What It Is' was created in Spain and completed in Athens. It refers to the eponymous publication by Vincent R. Werner in which he critically addresses economical and sociological questions in Spain and thus in comparable Greece. Problems such as 'working poor', 'gig economy' and rising rents in city centres due to the rising numbers of tourists are in particular pressuring people in the southern hemisphere and are wearing out traditional structures of society. The terms Elladistan, Espanistan and Banania are creations that derive from this development and proof of an inglorious erosion of security and trust in social institutions.

 

Urs Eberle (*1954) lives and works in St. Gallen. He has completed his studies at the Kunsthochschule Kassel and at the Architekturtechnikum St. Gallen. He has been included in various national and international exhibitions and executed many public art projects. This month his works will be presented in the Kunstmuseum St. Gallen as part of the exhibition 'Sammlungsfieber' by Corinne Schatz and Gianni Jetzer.